Lucia Berlin, born 1936 in Juneau, Alaska, American is a writer. At the age of twenty-four, she started publishing stories in The Nobel Savage magazine edited by Saul Bellow. My Story jockey won her the Jack London Award for Best Short Story in 1985, a with the collection Žudnja za dom, she won the American Literary Award in 1991. year. She worked as a high school teacher, housekeeper, telephone operator, a nurse, while taking care of her four sons and battling alcoholism. From 1996 to 2000, she taught creative writing at the University of Colorado. She died in 2004, and it was published eleven years after her death the book Handbook for housekeepers , already translated into thirty languages.